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Published on Jul 25, 2013
http://www.democracynow.org
- Prominent Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye has been released
from prison after being held for three years on terrorism-related
charges at the request of President Obama. Shaye helped expose U.S.
cruise missile attack on the Yemeni village of al-Majalah that killed 41
people, including 14 women and 21 children in December 2009.
Then-Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced his intention to
pardon Shaye in 2011, but apparently changed his mind after a phone call
from Obama. In a statement, the White House now says it is "concerned
and disappointed" by Shaye's release. "We should let that statement set
in: the White House is saying that they are disappointed and concerned
that a Yemeni journalist has been released from a Yemeni prison," says
Jeremy Scahill, national security correspondent for The Nation, who
covers Shaye's case in "Dirty Wars," his new book and film by the same
name. "This is a man who was put in prison because he had the audacity
to expose a U.S. cruise missile attack that killed three dozen women and
children." We're also joined by Rooj Alwazir, a Yemeni-American
activist who co-founded the Support Yemen media collective and
campaigned for Shaye's release.Watch Part 2 of this report at http://youtu.be/20z6L1BhcBM.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20z6L1BhcBM&w=560&h=315]
Published on Jul 25, 2013
http://www.democracynow.org
- Prominent Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye has been released
from prison after being held for three years on terrorism-related
charges at the request of President Obama. Shaye helped expose U.S.
cruise missile attack on the Yemeni village of al-Majalah that killed 41
people, including 14 women and 21 children in December 2009.
Then-Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced his intention to
pardon Shaye in 2011, but apparently changed his mind after a phone call
from Obama. In a statement, the White House now says it is "concerned
and disappointed" by Shaye's release. "We should let that statement set
in: the White House is saying that they are disappointed and concerned
that a Yemeni journalist has been released from a Yemeni prison," says
Jeremy Scahill, national security correspondent for The Nation, who
covers Shaye's case in "Dirty Wars," his new book and film by the same
name. "This is a man who was put in prison because he had the audacity
to expose a U.S. cruise missile attack that killed three dozen women and
children." We're also joined by Rooj Alwazir, a Yemeni-American
activist who co-founded the Support Yemen media collective and
campaigned for Shaye's release.Watch Part 1 of this report at http://youtu.be/1vBW_7M90TY.
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